Supporting device for water-closets.



E. G. WATROUS.

SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR WATER CLOSETS.

APPI-IGATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1911,

1,040,823. Patented 0011.8, 1912.

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E. G. WATROUS. SUPPORTING DEVICE-FOR WATER GLOSETS.

APPLICATION TILED SEPT.8,1911.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

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E. G. WATROUS.

SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR WATER GLOSETS.

AZPLIOATION FILED SEPT. R. I911.

Patentzed 0013.8, 1912.

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EARL G. WATROUS, OF CHICAGQ, ILLINOIS.

SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR WATER-C'LOSETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (let 8, 191.2.

Application tile-ll September 8, 1911. Eeriel No. 648,363.

To all whom "it may concern."

Be it. known that I, EARL (l. VVA'IRUUS, e citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the countj of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented. 21 certain new and useful Supporting Device forWater-Closets, of which the following is n description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention has for its object the provision of a simple and etlicient device for suppoiting and securing in position WtLtQl" closets; of the type which have u re-.irwurd discharge through the wall to the soil pipe behind. the some, and are supported from said pipe and huve no support upon the floor.

The novelty of the invention will be hereineftcr more fully set forth and particulurly pointed out in my claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a perspective view of the parts constituting my novel device, in one oi its forms, said 'JfiltS being assembled together in the positiol'i which they occupy in use, but disconnected from :1 closet; Fig. is a. t'ront View oi the 'l'lunggjcd hub of said device, and Fig. 3% middle vertical section thereof; Fig. '4 is a side View, partly in elevation and partly in section, of a. portion of e watercioset secured in position in front of n vzll and supported from :1 soil pipe behind the some by means of said device, Fig. 5 an elevntion of the reurside oit'gthe closetehown in Fig. 4t, showing the face .of the closet which fits agiiinst the wall, and Fig. G it top plan vie-W of said closet, showing the sent-shelf and the seat; post holes therein; Fig. 7 is o perspective view ot a. n'iodified form Of my novel device, showing its parts assembled but disconnected from the closet, us in Fig. 1, while Fig. is an elevation of the trout side oi the tiuuged. huh thereof, und Fig. 9

' a. middle vnn'tionl section of the some.

The same letters oft reterence are used to indicate corresponding; parts in the titVEI'tll views.

In the form in which it illustrated in the accompanying drawings, my novel device comprises an intermilly or externally threudcd hub or sleeve, adopted to be secured to and supported by the :iUil-IJlPt eoincidintwith the rearward discharge pussage it the closet, and having 2.1 projecting thinn, or plate cast inta zrui with it, and

will to bolts connecting sa d flange or plate with the closet bowl. to support the letter and secure it in position against the well. Where the soil-pipe is sulliciently near the inner side of the nil in trout of which the closet is to be secured the hub or sleeve of my device may he externally threaded and screwed directly into the internally thrczuhul hub of the T section of: the soil-pipe, which projects forward into the wall opening; but where the soilfpipe is not 'sulliciently near the wall to permit this direct. connection with it there nnty be interposed initween the hub oi. the T section of the pipe and the hub or sleeve of my device, it short nipple or section 01 pipe externally tin-ended :iteach end and screwed at its rear end into the T of the soil-pipe and lutvinp; the internullythr udcd hub or sleeve of my device screwed upon its front end. The hitter being the more usual form of connection, I have shown it in the dmwi'ngs of my present application, where in Fig. 4 A represents the soil-pipe, having interposed in it the usual, T-section B huvino the forwardly prolecting internally threaded hub G into which is screwed the rear end of the short pipe section or nipple l). The front end Oil the latter is externally threaded and has screwed upon it the interllttliy threaded hub or sleeve E of my device, :suid hub or sleeve being Sll]'L'UUl1(lt.(l, near its front end, with :1. flange or plate E cust integral with it. The internally threaded portion of the hub inemher ii of my device lei-minutes at its 'lm'wurd. end in no internul ennui-nshoulder or ring i l i gs. l, 2, 3 and. 5, whose forward t'uce, together with the timing or iuweled inner face G oi. the cxtrcinc forward end ot the hub ()l' sleeve E, 1n trout of the shoulder i cousin utes it sent for u, gasket or pucltingu'ing ll, lf'ig l, which serves to jljol'ui it tight but yielding;

joint hetween my novel fastening device and the discharge end l" of the closet. latter, as :ahown in Fig. -1-, in suiiubly l'ornic'd to project reui'wurdly into the front end of the huh or sleeve l) of my device, the unnulur outer surface oi such [n'ojecting end beingsuilubly formed to constitute it sent for the outer orforward time of the gasket H.

The closet hos formed upon its your side a suitable hose J to lit against the wall K and ll'ltlUHt' the listening device, such base being provided with openings l). I1 and M for the passage of the imlils N, N :ind which serve to connect the cloxet to the llunge or pluf'e E of the hub .l'l oi iny devlce. The front'ends The 25 l end, in the construction shown m Flgs, l, 2,

of thebolts N, N extend throu h brackets P, l formed upon the lower en of the bolts Q, Q which extend upward through holes 111 the seat-shelf B, said brackets fitting a 'ainst the under side of the seat-shelf and ein "clamped thereto by the hinge posts S,

screwed upon their upper ends and bearing upon the upper surface of the-shelf. The bolts N, N have nuts T, T screwed upon their front ends and bearin against the vertical front faces of'the brac ets P, P.

In he forinof device illustrated in F1 s.

- 1, 2,"3 and qthe rear ends of the bolts N are bent at right. angles to their forwardly extendin horizontal portions and fit in vertical soc ets U, U formed for them on the flange E of the hub E, Figs. 1 and 2, while inthe construction shown in'Figs. 8 and til-of the drawmgs, the rear ends of 7 the bolts N, N are externally threaded and screwed into internally threaded bosses V, V formed for them on said flange E.

The attachment of the closet to the under side of the fla-ngeE of the-hub E is secured by means of; the bolt Owhose upper rear 3 and 4, is bent at rip'ht angles to its body portion end on eg, with a horizontal socket forms to receive it at the middie ofth'e lower side of the fienge E, while its lower and forward end is externally threaded and extends through a hole in a higfiiformed for it on th lower rear side of construction shown in Figs. 7, 8 and 9 the,-

upper rear end of the bolt 0 is externally threaded like the bolts N, N, end screwed into an internally threaded boss w" rovided for it at the middle of the lower si e of the 'it in nder the construction and arr-an ement 'of the parts ahove'described, and re erring first to the form of my. novel deviceshown E50 in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the drawings, the manner of mounting the closet and securing osition upon the wall is as follows; The anged hub, or sleeve E of theattaching device-is first tightly screwed upon the nipple D projecting from the soil-pipe. The two upper bolts N, N are then properly ongaged with their sockets U, U, and the upper rear end of the lower bolt 0 is engaged with the socket W. The brackets P, P and bolts Q, Q having; been placed in position and secured to the scat-shelf of the closet by tho hingeiposts screwed upon the upper ends of the is Q, Q, and the gasket 1'! having been pieced around the projecting: 11-mvml l or the discharge opening of ilm closet, the

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noeoese latter is slipped rearwardly ovei-[the bolts N, N, said bolts being directed through.

holes L, L in the base I of the closet, while base J of the'closct has in this mannerbcen brou ht into position adjacent the wall ll. orward ends of the yupper bolts N, N

will have passed through the holes provided for them 1n the brackets l, P, and the nuts T, T will then he applied to them and the nut Z to the bolt 0, the nut Y having been previously applied to the b lt 0 after the passage of the front end of the bolt through the opening M in the base 5 of the closet and prior to its passage through the hole in the I 11g X. With the arts now assembled in this position, the onset may be securedto the hub of the fastenin device with the desired security and rigihity, and the gasket H be properly compressed to form a tight ,jointbetween them, by tighteningI nuts T, T and Z upon thebolts bl, and 0,

' the nut Y upon the bolt 9 being left loose and screwed sufficiently for up on the bolt 0 to permit this operation; and when the parts are brought into the desired position the nut/ Y is screwed down upon the bolt 0, against the rear face of the lug X, lock them in such position. The provision of the two nuts Y and Z on the bolt 0, on opposite sides of the lug X, not only permits the parts to ,be locked in position, but also .ifumishesa means for levelin and truing the closet if It should not originally rest in exactly true position.

The operation of mounting and securing the closet, with the modified construction of my novel device shown in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, is substantially the same as that above described excepting in respect to the lower bolt 0, which latter, in the'co'nstruction of Figs. 7, Bend 9, has to be secured to the flange E of the hub E, (by screwing its upper rear end into the internally threaded up the boss. w provided for it thereon,) after the closet has been broughtginto position against or adjacent the wall, with the upper. bolts N, N-projecting forward through the holes L,'L'in its base and their frontends extend mg through the holes in the bracket P.- P, this necessity being due to the fact that-in this construction the bolt 0 projects rigidly;

downwardly and forwardly from the flange of the hub E when attached thereto,

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whereas in the construction of Figs."1,-2, 3 and 4 it has a hinged connection with such flange.

[ls shown in F igs. l, 2 and 3, the sockets ll, U are duplicated as sockets U, U, on

the lowereide of the 'flcnge E of the hub end the socket W is duplicated, as socket 'W, upon the upper side of said flange, and iuFigs. '7, 8 rind 9 the internully threaded bosses corresponding to these sockets, in the construction there shown, are likewise duplicated on the upper end lower sides of the plate. This is for the purpose of making the hub lid-Laud its flange E reversible, so that if, in screwing the hub upon the nipple I), it should not be tight thereon when the flange has been brought into proper position for one of its sets of socketsor internally threaded bosses to receive the bolts N, N and 0, it may be given another half turn.

1 claim:

.l. A supporting device for wutcr-closcts of the class described, comprising a threaded hub adapted to have a screw connection with and be supported by the soitpipc, and

provided with a peripheral flange, a pair of bolts and nuts for connecting the upper part of ,the closet with the up or port of sand flange on opposite sides 0 the hub, and, u

third bolt and out for connecting the bottom of the closet with the bottom of said flange; substantially as described.

2. A supporting device for water-closets of the class described, comprising a threaded hub adapted to have a screw connection with and be supported by the soil-pipe, and provided with :t peripheral flm'ige, o. puir of combined brecketsand sect-post bolts with mean for securing them to the closet, it pair of bolts and nuts for connecting said brackets with said flange on opposite sides of the hub, and a third bolt and not for connecting the bottom of the closet with the lower side of said flange; substentiully as described.

3. In the herein described supporting device for weterclosets, comprising the threaded hub E having the peripheral flange l3 and adopted to be connected with and supported by the soil-pipe, the brackets P P and bolts Q Q formed integral with each other end the seat-post nuts 3 S for securing them to the seatshelf of the closet, the bolts N N and nuts T T for connecting the brookets I P Withthe flange E of the hub E, and the bolt 0 Midi-nut Z for connecting the bottom of. the flange E with the'bottom of the closet:fisubstentielly as described.

4. Theherein described supporting do vice Llor' water-closets, comprising the threudedhub E having the peripheral flange E prdvidcd with the Sockets U U end W, the bolts N N adopted to be engaged with saidsockcts at their rear ends and to be sooured totthc closet at their front ends, and the boltQ adopted to be engaged with the socket W at its upper rear end and to be connected with the bottom of the closet at its lower forward end; substantially as do scribed. v

5. The herein described supporting dovice for water-closets comprising the threaded hub E having the peripheral flange E provided with the sockets U U iind W, the combined brackets and bolts- P 1 and (Q, Q, and the soot-post nuts 8 S for securing them to the scat-shelf of the closet, the bolts N N engaged at their rear ends with the sockets U U and connected at their front ends with the brackets l? l by the nuts T T, and the bolt 0 engaged at its upper rear end with the socket W and provided at its lower forward end with the nut Z lior connecting it with the bottom of the closet; substuntielly described.

6. The herein described supporting device :fm' wutcr-closcts, comprising the threaded hub E having; the flange E provided with the two sets of sockets U U, W, and U U, WV, such du )licotc sets of sockets permitting the flanged liub to be used in reversed positions, the bolts N N adopted to be engaged at their rear ends with either the sockets U U or the sockets U U and provided at their front ends withn'icens for securing them to the closet, and the bolt 0 adapted to be secured at its upper rear end to either the socket 'W or the socket N and provided at its lower forward end with IllQ-ltl'lS for connecting it to the bottom of the closet; substantielly as described. V

'T. The ccuubinution, with a vertical soilpipe huving e horizmnlelly pri'ijectiug hub, of a closct-ottuching and supporting hub having screw connection with end supported by said soil-pipe hub, and provided with o. vertically disposed peripheral flange, a, closet having a vmlbbusc adopted to fit over end conceal said flange, :1. pair of horizontally disposed brackets hearing against the bottom of the sent-shelf of the closet on opposite sides thereof and provided with integrullv formed bolts extending vertically through said sect-shelf, seat-post nuts screwed upon the upper eudsof said bolts, a pair of horizontally disposed bolts engaged at their rear ends with the flange of the hub and extending at their forward ends through said brackets and provided with nuts in front of the letter, and a third bolt engaged at its u pper rear end with the lower side of the flanged hub and extending at its lower forward end through :1 lug formed on the bottom of the closet and provided with nuts upon opposite sides of said lug, for seouring it thereto; subslnuliully us described.

8. The colnbiimtion, with the vertical soilpipe A halving the T-section B provided with the horizontally disposed huh ('1. ol the closet having the Wull-bLLSQ l udnplcd to fit against the wall and provided with the bolt holes L l and M, said closet also lHl ll/f formed upon its bottom the lug: it provide-o with a bolt hole, the hub lE having screw connection with and :"supportcd b the soilpipe hub (l and provided with the l t-up: if),

I oeo ze the pair of bolts- N N assed through the. lower forward end; extending through the holes L L in the closet-Jase J and. en aged lug X and pr witllffip0n opposite sides m at their rear ends with the flange-E and thereof with the nuts Y and Z; substantially suitabli connected at their forward .ends as described.

5 with t closet structure, and the bolt. O EARL Gr. WATROUfi.

)assed through the opening M in the clpset- Witnesses:

use J and enga ed at its upper rear erid EDWARD Ruomu, with the flange 1 of the hub E, and at its; ROBERT DOBBERMAN 

